Catalogue       Group                                                                         A side/B side                                                       Year

Number

PAS 001      Earthquake                                                   Kutanga Tanga Pts 1 & 2

PAS 005      Zembi                                                          Alinga Linga Pts 1 & 2

Two records that Sofianne of Groovy Record in Paris alerted me to in April 2011. Neither band features anywhere else on this discography, though I have found a passing contemporary reference to a journalist/musician J.J. Otieno, who gained fame in the 1980s with a song called Kutanga Tanga, so Earthquake may be his band. The title phrase is Kiswahili slang for ‘philandering’.

The Zembi single is in Dholuo and the musical style is described as “raggae”, which makes it sound an intriguing prospect.